Donald Trump’s handpicked candidate Mike Collins is a notorious bigot, antisemite, and extremist currently under federal investigation for the illegal misuse of tax dollars. Collins, who is only a congressman because his daddy was a congressman, voted to double health insurance premiums for more than a million Georgians, for the Iran War, and for the Trump tariffs.

i read the color purple a few years ago and it traumatized me… like it literally starts with a 14 year old being raped by her father repeatedly and having two children by him that get sold immediately after birth…. like do you really think black people are reading that publicly

With respect, I think this statement says far more about the leadership of the unions than it does about Keir Starmer. Trade union membership has fallen from over 13 million to around 6 million, with the overwhelming majority of members joining for workplace representation, legal support, pay negotiations and protection at work, not because they wish their union leaders to determine who leads the Labour Party. As a former regional union leader myself, I would question how many ordinary members were consulted before union executives decided to involve themselves in Labour's leadership. My suspicion is very few. The reality is that Labour has changed because Britain has changed. The industrial Britain upon which much of the trade union movement built its political power no longer exists. Manufacturing represents a fraction of the economy it once did, and the old assumptions about class, politics and voting patterns no longer hold true. If the unions genuinely wish to defeat Reform, then perhaps they should spend less time plotting leadership contests and more time addressing the political conditions that created Reform in the first place. Brexit has not delivered the economic benefits that were promised. Instead, it has imposed a substantial cost upon the country and left Britain with slower growth, lower trade and reduced investment opportunities. The irony is that many of those now demanding a change of Labour leader are avoiding the one debate that goes to the heart of Reform's existence. Reform was born from Brexit politics and continues to draw much of its support from it. If you want to challenge Reform's appeal, you have to confront the consequences of Brexit honestly and make the case for a closer relationship with Europe. Perhaps union leaders should also reflect upon what happened to the Conservative Party. A party that loses touch with the country and retreats into ideological comfort zones eventually finds itself rejected by the electorate. The collapse of Labour could be even more dramatic. Twenty first century Britain cannot be led by people seeking to recreate the politics or economic thinking of the 1970s. The country has changed, the economy has changed and the electorate has changed. Any movement that refuses to recognise that reality risks not merely electoral defeat, but political irrelevance.

y’all will not believe how quickly “not even allowed to write something wrong now in this perfect world” will enter my lexicon

Mette needed to believe that mamma was against her sexuality and not that mamma was harming her with the harm as the goal in itself.

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